paulson who are professes at the college of agricultural sciences. could you please stand? they're inspiring collaboration discovered what could be a promising treatment for leukemia. laboratory tests, the compound they developed targeted and killed leukemia stem cells without relapse. bear team which includes undergraduate as well as graduate students is working to move this compound into clinical trials as soon as possible. thank you. [applause] these are and staters who are leading us into the future. they're the people i work for every day. they are the reason i am here today and just a few of the penn staters who will not allow anything to keep us changing the world for the better. i want to spend a few minutes looking ahead because we are facing a crisis of higher education. our young people from middle-class and working families, people like cats, will, lormac and stewart who for generations have depended on access to affordable community colleges at state universities. they are at risk of losing that access. throughout the nation state governments are cutting back o